Mr. Duong serves as the Chairman of
the Board of the National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service
Agencies (NAVASA), which he has been elected and re-elected to
in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002. Through his leadership and
dedication, Mr. Duong has been the force behind moving NAVASA
into an independent and growing non-profit national organization.

Mr. Duong is currently President of
DDI Associates Inc., a technology business and economic
development-consulting firm he founded in 2001. He also serves as
Director of the Maryland Technology Development Center, a
technology business incubator for IT and Bio businesses that he
helped establish for Montgomery County, Maryland. Prior to
founding DDI, Mr. Duong was the Director of Industry Networks and
Maryland Bioscience Alliance of the Technology Council of
Maryland, a membership organization of the technology industry in
Maryland. Mr. Duong also served as Assistant Director of the
Montgomery County Department of Economic Development where he was
responsible for developing and executing business and industrial
development aimed at generating jobs and expanding the county tax
base from 1977 until his retirement from the County’s services in
1998. From 1975-1976, Mr. Duong was the Director of the Refugee
Resettlement Program in Eastern Washington State where he was
responsible for developing refugee resettlement assistance
programs as well as housing, employment and training services.

In addition to his community
leadership at NAVASA, Mr. Duong serves as a Board member of a
number of community organizations such as the National Asian
Pacific Center in Aging (NAPCA), the Regional Lourie Center for
Infants and Young Children, and the Monte Jade Science &
Technology Association. Mr. Duong also founded the Suburban
Maryland International Trade Association and the Maryland
Vietnamese Mutual Association in 1979 where he served as Chairman
and President for three terms. The organization secured funding
from local governments and private foundations to operate
community outreach, tutorial and resettlement assistance to
Vietnamese refugees and immigrants.

Mr. Duong’s commitment as a
community activist has gained him recognition by numerous
community-based organizations such as appreciation citations from
the Governor of Washington, the Governor of Maryland and the
President of the Senate of Maryland. He has been appointed to the
Maryland Economic Development Corporation by the Governor of
Maryland and served on the Asian Advisory Committee of the Bureau
of the Census by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

Mr. Duong received a B.A. in
Education, History and Geography at the University of Saigon,
Vietnam. He also attended the University of Oklahoma, American
Economic Development Institute and the University of Maryland’s
Government Executive Institute.

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